How many districts and counties are there in Chongqing?

Chongqing has 26 districts and 12 counties.

The Cuba-Chongqing region centered on Chongqing is the birthplace of Bayu culture, and this land has given birth to Chongqing's long history. At the end of the Paleolithic period, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago, people lived in Chongqing. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in BC 1 1 century, the Ba people established the Ba State with Chongqing as its capital. After Qin destroyed Ba, the world was divided into 36 counties, and Ba County was one of them.

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Chongqing has always been the residence of Xuanwei Department in southern Sichuan, and was once the residence of Sichuan Province (1288-1290). In the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1280), the Governor's Office of Chongqing Road was established, which governed three counties, namely, Ba, Jiangjin and Nanchuan, and was later divided into four counties, namely, Zhong, Fu, Lu and He. In the 20th year of Zheng Zheng (1360), Ming Yuzhen established a peasant army here, with the title "Daxia", which governed Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

1March, 199714th, the fifth session of the Eighth National People's Congress of China approved the establishment of Chongqing municipality, and the former Chongqing municipality was abolished. Chongqing municipality directly under the central government governs the original Chongqing, Wanxian, Fuling and Qianjiang areas. ***43 districts, cities and counties with an area of 82,402.95 square kilometers and 30.02 million people.

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Chongqing-Baidu Encyclopedia